{{Short description|American jazz bassist (1919–1999)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Arnold Fishkind | image = Arnold fishkind.jpg | caption = Arnold Fishkind in the 1960s | birth_name = Arnold Aaron Fishkind | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|07|20|mf=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|09|06|1919|07|20|mf=yes}} | origin = [[New York City]], New York, US | instrument = [[Upright bass]] | genre = [[Jazz]] | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1937–1988 }}
'''Arnold Fishkind''', sometimes credited as '''Arnold Fishkin''' (born July 20, 1919 – September 6, 1999,<ref>{{cite web | title = Arnold Fishkin Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory | accessdate = 2008-12-29 | url = http://elvispelvis.com/arnoldfishkin.htm | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081225101656/http://elvispelvis.com/arnoldfishkin.htm| archive-date= 25 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>) was an American [[jazz]] [[double bass|bassist]] who appeared on over 100 albums.
==Early life== Fishkind was born in [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], and grew up in [[Freeport, New York|Freeport]], [[Long Island]], where he met and began a lifelong friendship with [[Chubby Jackson]]. At age 7 Fishkind began learning violin, and played in "The Musical Aces", a local band of budding musicians.<ref name=Tribune>{{cite news |first=Jane |last=Munger |title=This Jazz Bass Fiddler Is Judged 'The Most' |work=The Levittown Tribune |page=8 |date=23 December 1954 }}</ref> By age 14 he was playing bass.
==Later life and career== Fishkind had his first professional gig with [[Bunny Berigan]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz |last=Dupuis |first=Robert |year=1993 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=978-0-8071-3068-1 |page=94 }}</ref> in 1937. Following this he played with [[Jack Teagarden]]<ref name=Tribune/> (1940–41), [[Van Alexander]],<ref name=Tribune/><ref>{{cite book |title=American Big Bands |last=Lee |first=William F. |author2=Billy Taylor |year=2005 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-634-08054-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanbigbands00leew/page/218 218] |url=https://archive.org/details/americanbigbands00leew/page/218 }}</ref> and [[Les Brown (bandleader)|Les Brown]]<ref name=Tribune/> (1941–42). His career was interrupted at this point by three years of service in the armed forces during World War II.
In mid-1946 Fishkind met and played with pianist [[Lennie Tristano]] in New York, but by the fall he left to go to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] to play with [[Charlie Barnet]]. During this experience he played alongside [[Stan Getz]]. In 1947 Fishkind returned to New York, where from 1947 to 1949 he played with Tristano, and from 1949 to 1951 he recorded with [[Lee Konitz]] and on [[Johnny Smith]]'s ''[[Moonlight in Vermont (album)|Moonlight in Vermont]]''. During this period he also continued to play with Barnet, and played with [[Benny Goodman]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Bebop: The Best Musicians and Recordings |last=Yanow |first=Scott |year=2000 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0-87930-608-3 |page=202 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Jazz: the essential companion to artists and albums |last=Carr |first=Ian |author2=Digby Fairweather |author3=Brian Priestley |author4=Charles Alexander |year=2004 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=978-1-84353-256-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr/page/344 344] |url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr/page/344 }}</ref>
In the 1950s he found much work as a [[session musician]], for radio (for example, "Across the Board",<ref name=Tribune/>) television (for example, ''The Steve Allen Show'',<ref name=Tribune/>) and pop musicians (including [[Frankie Laine]]). His career at ABC<ref name=Tribune/> lasted fifteen years and included appearances in the Andy Williams Show in 1961. Fishkind became well known enough during this time to be mentioned by [[Jack Kerouac]] in his novel ''[[Visions of Cody]]''.
Rock and Roll having decimated the market for jazz musicians in New York City, Fishkind moved from Glen Cove, New York back to California. In California he found work with the [[Dean Martin]] and [[Bob Hope]] television shows, and some substitution engagements on the Tonight and Merv Griffin television shows, as well as some recording and film work. He also toured with Les Brown and [[Lena Horne]]. Fishkind continued to record into the 1980s, playing with, among others, [[Frank Scott (musician)|Frank Scott]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/collections/manuscripts/lit&music/Scott/biography.html |title=Frank Scott Papers 1901–1996 |accessdate=14 January 2009 |publisher=North Dakota State University |date=21 September 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819191332/http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/collections/manuscripts/lit%26music/Scott/biography.html |archive-date=19 August 2008 }}</ref>
[[Image:Nkvd004.jpg|thumb|left|Chubby Jackson and Arnold Fishkind 1998]] Fishkind converted to Christianity after discussions with his son, Todd, and contemporary Christian music artist [[Keith Green]]. He was at first associated with the [[Vineyard Christian Fellowship]], where he introduced trumpet player/arranger Shorty Rogers and pianist Bobby Corwin, [[Johnny Mercer]]'s son-in-law, to the group. He later (1978) became an elder at Keith Green's [[Last Days Ministries]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ldmers.org/images/In-Memory/inmemory.htm |title=In Memory |accessdate=14 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130005418/http://ldmers.org/images/In-Memory/inmemory.htm |archive-date=30 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dearly loved by Green, he was looked up to as a kind of father figure. Ultimately he moved to Palm Desert, California, where he was able to join the celebration of his friend Chubby Jackson's 80th birthday. In his latter years, Fishkind became an ordained minister at Family Life Church in Palm Desert.
During his career Fishkind performed swing and bebop jazz, television, jingles, and even western themed music. His documented associations included, in addition to those mentioned above, [[Ella Fitzgerald]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz |last=Nicholson |first=Stuart |year=1995 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-80642-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/ellafitzgeraldbi00nich }}</ref> [[Stan Hasselgard]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years |last=Yanow |first=Scott |year=2003 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0-87930-755-4 |page=267 }}</ref> [[Peanuts Hucko]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Swing: The Best Musicians and Recordings |last=Yanow |first=Scott |year=2000 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0-87930-600-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/swing00yano/page/363 363] |url=https://archive.org/details/swing00yano/page/363 }}</ref> [[Charlie Parker]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker |last=Priestley |first=Brian |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press US |isbn=978-0-19-532709-0 |page=150 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker |last=Koch |first=Lawrence O. |year=1988 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-87972-260-9 |page=89 }}</ref> [[Shorty Rogers]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Shorty%20Rogers_1.htm |title=Shorty Rogers/Infinity Promenade |accessdate=14 January 2009|year=1983 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117095126/http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Shorty%20Rogers_1.htm |archive-date=17 November 2007 }}</ref> [[Butch Stone]],<ref name=Tribune/> and [[Jerry Wald]].<ref name=Tribune/> Although there is no mention in the record from whom he learned bass, he gave as his primary influence [[Jimmy Blanton]]. Fishkind himself mentored Chubby Jackson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jacop.net/news8.html |title=Ingrid's Jaco Cybernest/News/CHUBBY JACKSON 1918–2003 |accessdate=14 January 2009|date=1 October 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006185834/http://www.jacop.net/news8.html |archive-date=6 October 2008 }}</ref> and had at least one student, bassist Peter Blannin,<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who of British Jazz |last=Chilton |first=John |year=2004 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-8264-7234-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofbritish00chil/page/38 38] |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofbritish00chil/page/38 }}</ref> who studied with him in New York in 1951. Fishkind died in [[Palm Desert, California]].
==Discography== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |- ! style="width:300px;"| Album ! style="width:130px;"| Primary Artist ! Release ! style="width:130px;"| Label ! UPC |- | ''[[Conception (album)|Conception]]'' || [[Miles Davis]], Various Artists || 1951 || OJC || 25218172622 |- | ''[[That Bad Eartha#RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt (1953)|RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt]]'' (in the [[Henri Rene|Henri René]] Orchestra)|| [[Eartha Kitt]] || 1953 || RCA || - |- | ''[[That Bad Eartha#That Bad Eartha (EP) (1954)|That Bad Eartha (EP)]]'' (in the Henri René Orchestra)|| Eartha Kitt || 1954 || RCA || - |- | ''[[Eartha Kitt discography#Studio albums|Down To Eartha]]'' (in the Henri René Orchestra)|| Eartha Kitt || 1955 || RCA || - |- | ''[[Subconscious-Lee]]'' (rec. 1949–1950) || [[Lee Konitz]] || 1955 || OJC || 25218618625 |- | ''[[That Bad Eartha|That Bad Eartha (LP)]]'' (in the Henri René Orchestra)|| Eartha Kitt || 1956 || RCA || - |- | ''[[Lullabies of Birdland]]'' || [[Ella Fitzgerald]] || LP: 1956<br>CD: 2007 || Verve || 602517247659 |- | ''[[Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (album)|Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries]]'' || [[Howard McGhee]] || 1956 || Bethlehem || |- | ''[[Moonlight in Vermont (album)|Moonlight in Vermont]]'' || [[Johnny Smith]] || LP: 1956<br>CD: 2004 || Blue Note Records || 724359309125 |- | ''[[Eartha Kitt discography#Studio albums|Thursday's Child]]'' (in the Henri René Orchestra)|| Eartha Kitt || 1957 || RCA || - |- |''[[Gigi (Hank Jones album)|Gigi]]''||[[Hank Jones]]||1958||Golden Crest|| - |- | ''Portrait of Bunny Berigan'' (rec. 1932–1937) || [[Bunny Berigan]] || 1989 || ASV Living Era || 743625506020 |- | ''On the Trail'' || [[Frankie Laine]] || 1990 || Bear Family || 790051154806 |- | ''[[Body and Soul (Coleman Hawkins album)|Body and Soul]]'' (rec. 1939–1956) || [[Coleman Hawkins]] || 1996 || RCA || 90266851522 |- | ''Intuition'' (rec. 1949–1956)|| [[Lennie Tristano]] and [[Warne Marsh]] || 1996 || Blue Note Records || 724385277122 |- | ''Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Sessions''<br>(rec. 1944–1948)|| [[Charlie Parker]] || 2000 || Savoy Jazz || 795041707925 |- | ''Big Band Jazz'' (rec. 1944)|| [[Jack Teagarden]] || 2006 || Collectables || 90431087121 |} ;With [[Coleman Hawkins]] *''[[The Hawk in Paris]]'' (Vik, 1956) '''With [[Lee Konitz]]''' *''[[Inside Hi-Fi]]'' (Atlantic, 1956)
==References== *[[Eugene Chadbourne]], [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p76318/biography|pure_url=yes}} Arnold Fishkind] at [[Allmusic]] *{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz |last=Feather |first=Leonard |author2=Ira Gitler |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-532000-8 |page=226 }}
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Discogs artist|Arnold Fishkin}}
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